English

At Broughton Junior School, we recognise that English is a core subject within the National Curriculum and that the focus of all our teaching is to develop pupils’ abilities to use language to think, explore, organise and communicate significant meanings to enable every pupil to achieve their potential and develop self-esteem. We also recognise the importance language plays in social, emotional and imaginative development of pupils as they use language to make meaning of the complexity of human experience, and to communicate with the world at large.

Aims

Pupils are given opportunities to inter-relate the requirements of English within a broad and balanced approach to the teaching of English across the curriculum. They are given opportunities to consolidate and practise taught literacy skills.

We aim to:

Enable pupils to be taught in all subjects to express themselves correctly and appropriately

Enable pupils to read accurately and with understanding

Encourage pupils to appreciate literature

Enable pupils to recognise the close relationship between reading and writing